Vanilla originated in the Americas. Here is how Madagascar came to be the world's largest supplier of this expensive spice (second most expensive in the world!).
Things, a lot of them software, that I found interesting. Everything I link to is free/open source unless specified otherwise.
Sunday, December 13, 2020
How Madagascar came to supply the world's vanilla
5 lines to put in every .vimrc (from Hacker News)
set hlsearch " highlight all search results
set ignorecase " do case insensitive search
set incsearch " show incremental search results as you type
set number " display line number
set noswapfile " disable swapfile
Ref: https://swordandsignals.com/2020/12/13/5-lines-in-vimrc.html
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